Vectorworks Spotlight

Vectorworks® Spotlight is the industry-leading design software for the entertainment business. It works like you think, facilitating improvisation and creativity so you can transform your designs into award-winning productions. Whether you work in lighting, scenic, event, TV, film, rigging, or exhibit design, Spotlight software balances your process with the need for coordinated, accurate information so you can create unmatched experiences.

Resources

Benefits

It's the gold standard in entertainment. Spotlight is tailor-made to meet the needs of designers in the event planning, exhibition, film, theatre and entertainment industries. It contains everything you need to transform your ideas into powerful, successful productions. Whether you design lighting, scenery, sets, live concerts, corporate events, theatrical productions or design exhibits, you can put yourself in the spotlight when you create a spectacular show with Vectorworks Spotlight.

Comprehensive for All Your Needs

No Learning Curve Required

Out of the box, and out of the gate. Vectorworks Spotlight was designed to think like you do, so you are up and running right away doing what you like best — designing.

Flexible To Fit Your Workflow

With Vectorworks Spotlight you're not limited to a certain workflow, so you have the freedom to work on any size project in 2D or 3D. Design whatever you can dream up.

Plays Well with Others

Vectorworks Spotlight can work fluidly with your colleagues' or your other programs, so there's nothing lost in the translation.

Customer-Focused for Your Success

Your relationship with us doesn't end when you download the software. We provide many channels for you to get the information, training, tech support and networking you need.

Cost-Effective for Your Budget

You won't find another professional design program that packs so much into such a small price. In one package, you get state-of-the-art tools and technology and the ability to work from conception to completion.

Proven Worldwide

We listen to our customers and use their feedback to create a product that continually exceeds expectations, delivering superior design flexibility and world-class graphics. Join the more than 400,000 professional designers worldwide who use Vectorworks.

Integrated Rendering

All Vectorworks software packages include Renderworks, the best-in-industry rendering feature set built on the award-winning Cinema 4D render engine. Renderworks provides the tools necessary to visualize your landscape model throughout the design process while producing clear and accurate illustrations.

New In 2017

Features

Create dynamic 2D and 3D designs, glide through your projects with a tightly streamlined interface, and access extensive features and resource libraries. Vectorworks Spotlight offers the features you want in a comprehensive, intuitive software that will multi-task just like you do.

Paperwork is automatically generated from your designs.

Creating spectacular sets or scenes is easy with custom tools and symbol libraries.

Curtain objects

Seating layout tool

Entourage library

Human figure tool

Scene and set library

Create plot and model view

Video Screen Tools

A suite of powerful free-form modeling tools make it easy to design custom objects and shapes.

Boolean operations

NURBS curves

Loft surfaces

Extrusions

Extractions

Protrusions

Shells

Solids

Unfolding surfaces

A custom gobo tool allows you to create your own gobos in addition to gobo catalogs from these manufacturers:

Goboland

Lee

Rosco

Gam

Apollo

High End

Entourage Vehicles

Entourage Figures

Visualizing scenes is a breeze using a series of commands and rendering options available with the add on, RenderWorks.

Manage scenes

Animate scenes

Create atmospheric effects

Volumetric lighting

Make presentation boards using non-photo-realistic rendering

Render physical light with .ies light distribution files

Intelligent commands to increase productivity and make tasks simpler.

Live sectioning tools

Label legend manager

Photometer

Event Room Layout

Extensive instrument symbol libraries from all the major manufacturers

Altman

USITT

Lycian

Scenic Elements

ARRI

Varilite

Martin

Selecon

Chroma Q

Wybron

Mole-Richardson

Steel Shapes

City Theatrical

Xenotech

Morpheus

Strand

Clay Paky

High End

NSI Colortran

ETC

Coemar

Lighting Positions

Powerline

Hardware

ESP Vision 3D

LSD-Icon

Robert Juliat

Molding profiles

Cabinet pulls

Color Kinetics

James Thomas

Atlas Sound

EAW Audio

d&B Audiotechnik

Meyer Sound

Banquet Furniture

Australian Features

OzCAD produces a special version of Vectorworks Spotlight called Spotlight Australia, which contains Australian libraries, additional tools and commands, along with high quality 2D and 3D entourage libraries for people, vehicles, trees, furniture, hatches, colour palettes, image fills and gradients. For more information, read the detailed descriptions below.

Title Block Tool & Issue Command

The VAA Title Block tool and VAA Revise Issue Print commands provide a complete and flexible system for adding title blocks to drawings, entering issue or revision notes, batch printing and creating or updating a comprehensive transmittal. These tools are designed to speed-up drawing management whilst maintaining more accurate and detailed revision and issue history for the full duration of a project.

In Vectorworks 2008, there are new options which include north points, drawing stamps and custom names for title block symbols.

Australian Colour Libraries

This command provides access to libraries of professional Colour Systems commonly used by Specifiers in Australia. Standard libraries include Dulux®, Taubmans, Porters, Murabond, Colorbond®, Laminex®, Concrete Colour Systems and Cabots®.

3D Tape Measure Tool

Quickly determine distances between points or objects in a 3D model using this new tool. Like its 2D counterpart, it provides a running total length as well as the length of the last segment drawn.

Custom Dashed Line Tool

Useful for boundary lines, piping runs or electrical wiring, this tool is designed to draw straight sided polygons with edges comprising of dashed lines with a cross line or piece of text in the dash space. Once drawn, the polygon can be reshaped with the 2D Reshape tool.

Edit Class Names Utility

Quickly search for and edit multiple class names in one hit with this useful utility.

Handrails Tool

This tool allows a much greater variety of handrail objects to be drawn as a single piece or as multiple mitred lengths at any angle. It includes a library of predefined types that include glass, wire, timber and aluminium.

Equal Dimension Tool

Replaces the numeric dimension value on a picked dimension with the text ‘EQ’.